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Learning Standards

As 21st Century learning standards (below) emerge and evolve to our digital culture, we remain focused on aligning our productions and activities with standards across the curriculum in ways that add new perspective to existing content, engage students through their established media habits and ways of seeing the world, and provide hands-on practice with new forms of communication and technology.

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Media Literacy in the 21st Century School, a presentation by TMS with Dan Storchan outlined how we align the core principles of media literacy education with technology and traditional standards within existing curricula.

Our goal is to help educators locate teachable moments in the classroom through the use and analysis of digital media, bridging The National Association of Media Literacy Education's (NAMLE) Core Principles of Media Literacy Education, with the outlined goals and standards of the educators we work with.

The examples below demonstrate how standards in various disciplines are incorporating media literacy concepts -- emphasizing the relevance and potential of media literacy across any curriculum.

Communication and Collaboration: Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.

Research and Information Fluency: Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.

"...students need the ability to gather, comprehend, evaluate, synthesize, report on, and create a high volume and extensive range of print and nonprint texts in media forms old and new. The need to research and to consume and produce media is embedded into every element of today’s curriculum" - Common Core Standards Initiative, January 2010

Speaking & Listening; Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: 5. Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.

Reading: Craft and Structure: 5. Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging.Grade 11-12

Reading: Informational Text; Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: 7. Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue. Grade 6